On 2 March 2013 12:04, Fae <faewik+comm...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2. Text on a memorial may be under its own copyright even though it is > on permanent public display, so the text itself must be demonstrably > out of copyright. This is a separate issue from the general FOP > provisions. If the text is incidental to the photograph, i.e. not a > close up and the text is effectively de minimus, then FOP is likely to > be valid.
One other thing to remember: most of this text is fairly uncreative - in many cases, standard phrases or dates, and lists of names. We could make a reasonably good case that they are unlikely to be copyrightable texts regardless of age. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
